The court wants to borrow money from the Royal Bank to repair the railway tracks!
This was unheard of news for thousands of years. Once it came out, it immediately aroused many people's comments.
"It's just to build a railway track. Do you still need to borrow money from the Royal Bank? Is the imperial court so poor?" Three or five scholars sat in the restaurant and roared loudly while they were drunk.
"That is, the imperial court is so poor that it has to borrow money from the Royal Bank. It can be seen that all the princes in the court are just sitting on the corpse..."
"You two don't seem to have any fame yet, right? You dare to mock the princes of the dynasty, you are really not afraid of tigers..." A man dressed as a businessman next to him heard this and couldn't help but interjected.
After hearing the merchant's words, the scholar became more energetic and said loudly: "The rulers are dishonest, and we, the scholars, should criticize them! What does this have to do with whether we have fame or not?"
"Hahaha..." The expected cheers did not appear, but instead the audience burst into laughter.
The scholar's face was a little confused, and he blushed for a while. He pointed at everyone angrily and said: "Everyone, there is no shortage of tricks!"
The common people don't care, and being scolded by scholars is nothing, so no one stands up to argue with scholars.
Although the merchants had some displeasure on their faces, they had an instinctive respect for the scholars, so no one refuted the scholars.
But there are more than just ordinary people and merchants in this restaurant!
"I asked where the dog came here and barked. It turned out to be from the Imperial College!" A college student in a green shirt held a wine glass and looked at the scholar with a sneer.
"People from the academy..." The scholar turned around suddenly and recognized the student in green shirt at a glance. His eyes turned red instantly, and his eyes revealed
Hate.
Enemies are extremely jealous when they meet!
Maybe the two of them had nothing to do with each other in the past, or even didn't know each other at all. But this does not prevent them from becoming mortal enemies the moment they meet.
From the academy's point of view, it was the Imperial College that shamelessly went to the emperor to take away the Jinshi spot from them.
Stealing people's futures, this hatred is greater than the sworn hatred!
"You don't even have any fame, so you dare to talk nonsense!" The academy student looked at the scholar up and down, and said loudly: "It seems that the Imperial College is not only incompetent in teaching, but also has a serious lack of moral character!"
After hearing this, several scholars glared at the academy students with indignation. The other party directly scolded the Imperial College, which made them feel more uncomfortable than scolding themselves.
"Is there something wrong with what I said?"
"No! Of course not." The academy student shook his head and slowly teased the scholar, "Do you know how much it costs to build a railway track? Do you know how much money the Ministry of Revenue's treasury has now? If you know everything, you will understand why The court will borrow money from the Royal Bank.”
"It's just a railway track, how much can it cost?" The scholar was dissatisfied.
"How much can it cost?" The voice of the academy student raised an octave, with ridicule towards the scholars, "Do you know how much the railway track from Beijing to Shanghai County costs?"
As he spoke, the academy student drew four fingers and sneered: "More than four million yuan! This is what you said, how much can you spend..."
"Four..." The scholar wanted to object for the sake of objecting, but in the face of such a huge number, the words still choked on his throat.
What a huge wealth more than four million yuan is, this exceeds the scholar's imagination.
"It's such a luxury to spend so much money just to build a railway track..." The scholar lacked confidence and could only whisper in a low voice.
But the reactions of people in the restaurant were different, and the people all exclaimed in surprise. More than four million guan, how much is this? Stacked together, I’m afraid they can pile up a mountain of money, right?
But now so much money is used to spread it on the ground. It is luxurious. It is so luxurious!
But the reaction of the merchants was completely different from that of the common people. Only more than 4 million yuan? The price was much lower than they expected!
These businessmen have already calculated countless times how profitable the railway track from Beijing to Shanghai County is. After investigation and calculation, it was unanimously agreed that this railway track would bring about 1.5 million yuan in revenue every year.
However, the construction cost was only over 4 million yuan. Doesn’t this mean that the cost can be recovered in just three years? It will be profitable for countless years to come!
This profit is so amazing, it is worthy of the arms of Han Du, a good boy.
I think many of the merchants here were not optimistic about Han Du's construction of railway tracks. They did not expect that in just a few years, Han Du would have already started to make money, and he was making a lot of money!
"A summer insect cannot speak of ice, how can a frog at the bottom of a well know how vast the world is!" The academy student coldly sneered at the scholar.
Being ridiculed in this way, the scholar became angry. Although he was not reasonable, he still wanted to come up with some absurd reasons.
Staring back at the academy students, the scholar retorted: "The Zhenguo Government built the railway track from the capital to Shanghai County on its own. Now the court has
The imperial court was unable to build the building and had to borrow money from the Royal Bank? What does this mean? Doesn't it mean that the Zhenguo Palace is as rich as any other country, richer than the entire Ming Dynasty? "
The academy students instantly understood the scholar's sinister intentions. He wanted to target the Zhenguo government. Want to kill someone with a borrowed knife? Just you, are you worthy?
"Who here doesn't know that the Duke of Zhen Guo is rich?" The academy student spread his hands and laughed loudly, "The Duke of Zhen Guo has a reputation for philanthropy. What if he only wants to make money? Not to mention he is rich enough to rival the country. Even an extremely wealthy country can make money back!"
"Hahaha, the young master is right." A businessman immediately echoed, "What does it mean to be rich enough to rival a country? If Duke Zhen Guo wants to make money, he can earn ten riches that rival other countries overseas."
"Exactly. Among the sea merchants among us, who wouldn't remember the kindness of Duke Zhen Guo?"
"If it weren't for Duke Zhen to open up the waterway for me and other maritime merchants, I'm afraid I would still be just a small merchant! Hahaha..."
Over the years, maritime trade has changed dramatically. From the beginning, overseas trade was regarded as extremely dangerous. The sea is unpredictable. In the beginning, the boat was overturned by the wind and waves, and everyone was swept into the sea to feed the fish. There were actually many cases. What's more, there are still Japanese pirates overseas who are watching with eager eyes.
As Han Du wiped out Japanese pirates and gradually found safe waterways, and the safety of sea voyages was guaranteed, maritime trade really began to flourish.
By now, the meaning of maritime merchant representation has long been different. Maritime business now means wealth and a strong family background!
Therefore, these few seas
As soon as Shang opened his mouth, he immediately attracted everyone's attention.
The common people and other merchants toasted to several people to show their friendship.
When the academy students saw someone helping, they slightly cupped their hands and said with a smile: "Thank you all for speaking up and letting the villain's conspiracy collapse!"
"Young Master, you're welcome." The merchant who just stood up to speak quickly returned the greeting and said sternly: "I am only today thanks to the grace of the Duke of Zhenguo. Naturally, I cannot tolerate anyone's speculation and slander!"
The scholar was still unconvinced and said loudly: "In the Ming Dynasty, even the imperial court couldn't afford to build a building, but the Zhenguogong Palace built one on its own. Doesn't this mean that the Zhenguogong Palace is richer than the imperial treasury? ?”
"You are so ignorant and stupid. You haven't even carefully investigated the specific situation. You are just making nonsense here to mislead the people. It is simply deplorable!" The academy student couldn't bear it anymore. He suddenly stood up and pointed at the scholar. scold.
"The imperial treasury is not without money. Several million guan can still be obtained. But part of the money is the salary of officials this year, and part is money used to build water conservancy projects and provide disaster relief. There are also hundreds of thousands of guan. There is a balance, but these are kept just in case.”
"Tell me, can any of this money be easily touched?"
After hearing this explanation, the people not only didn't think there was anything wrong with borrowing money from the Royal Bank even though they had money, but they felt that the court would rather be embarrassed and borrow money than use the money prepared for disaster relief, and they suddenly felt much more at ease.
The scholar was so beaten that he lost his temper and lowered his head like a lost dog.
When everyone saw him like this, they felt
Very relieved.
However, not everyone thinks it is a good thing for the court to borrow money from the Royal Bank.
Some people objected and even said: "The Emperor's Bank originally belongs to the Emperor, which is equivalent to the imperial court borrowing money from the emperor. Moreover, the imperial court also needs to pay interest to the emperor."
"Instead of doing this, it is better to ask the emperor for money directly. In this way, not only do you not have to pay back the interest, you don't even have to pay back the principal!"
There are quite a few people who have this idea.
However, everyone knows that as early as the Xiaokang period. The late emperor built the county school so that children all over the world could study in the school. To this end, the royal family had to throw down mountains of gold and silver every year.
At the beginning, the imperial court was afraid of being burdened by such huge expenses, and strongly advocated the complete separation of the national treasury and the internal treasury. From then on, the inner treasury had absolutely nothing to do with the national treasury.
Even if the treasury is starved to death, there is no reason to take a penny from the inner treasury to fill it.
And no one dares to bring it up. Once anyone brings it up, it means taking food from the mouths of all the children in the world. How can the parents of these children agree?
Therefore, even if someone is dissatisfied, they dare not raise it openly and can only cover up their complaints. But these rare complaints were quickly drowned in the tide and failed to make any waves.
The scandal that the imperial court borrowed money from the Royal Bank continued to spread, and another even more shocking news spread.
"What? It's not enough for the court to borrow money from banks, but it also needs to borrow money from merchants?"
All the merchants who heard the news looked panicked and worried!
From ancient times to the present, the imperial court has borrowed money from merchants quite a lot, but almost all of them were from Liu
Be prepared to borrow money from Jingzhou. If you borrow money, you will never pay it back!
Not only that, the court would just refuse to pay back the money, but it would also intensify the accusations against the merchants, which would directly destroy their families!
There are countless such tragic examples. Who among the merchants who heard the news was not frightened?
There are those who are so timid that they even gave up their family property and fled the capital overnight, just to save their lives!
And under such circumstances, which merchant would dare to take the initiative to lend money to the court?
